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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ceremony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the teacher at the school call the Indian stories about the world?
(a) Truth from a different perspective
(b) Superstition
(c) Interesting fiction
(d) The teacher at a white school does not know the old stories

2. Who can help the man who believes he is a coyote, according to Indian legend?
(a) Ingesting peyote with a priest
(b) Any medicine man
(c) Witchery from a chief’s daughter
(d) The four old bear people

3. What does the medicine man say is the reason new ceremonies need to be created?
(a) He does not think the ceremonies need to be changed
(b) They cannot find all the elements necessary for the old ceremonies
(c) White people have ruined the old ceremonies
(d) Things shift and change around them

4. Where is Thought-Woman sitting in the opening poem?
(a) In a creek bed
(b) Under a tree
(c) In her room
(d) On top of a mountain

5. What does Tayo do when Emo will not leave him alone at the bar?
(a) He leaves the bar
(b) He calls the police and has them arrest Emo
(c) He hits Harley in the head with a cue stick
(d) He shoves a broken beer bottle into Emo’s stomach

Short Answer Questions

1. With what were the walls of the Ts’eh’s cabin plastered?

2. What is the tribe of the woman who is in the truck with Harley and Leroy when they stop and pick up Tayo?

3. What does the old Mexican man bring Tayo when Tayo is at the café?

4. What happens to Rocky and Tayo the first day they are in Oakland?

5. What does Shush, the name of the medicine man’s helper mean in English?

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